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Towards Understanding Community : People and Places /

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Written in the temporal and political context of the British New Labour Government's ongoing reliance on the word community, academics and activists critically engage here with the range of ways in which contemporary ideas of community are being used and contested. The key focus is on understan...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Clay, Christopher J. (Editor), Madden, Mary (Editor), Potts, Laura (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Subjects:
Social Sciences.
Demography.
Politics of the Welfare State.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.
Social Theory.
Sociology, general.
Equality.
Social sciences > Philosophy.
Social sciences.
Social structure.
Sociology.
Welfare state.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Written in the temporal and political context of the British New Labour Government's ongoing reliance on the word community, academics and activists critically engage here with the range of ways in which contemporary ideas of community are being used and contested. The key focus is on understanding community from action into theory and vice versa.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (XI, 250 pages)
ISBN:9780230590403
DOI:10.1057/9780230590403